Display stand



March 4, 1941 L. c. GALTON 2,234,000

DISPLAY STAND Filed Dec. 24, I957 INVENTOR Landon C. Ga/zon BY L/ 42 6 w fiwww A TORNEYS Patented Mar. 4:, 1941 v UNITED P'E'ENT OFFICE DISPLAY STAND Landon C. Galton, Canajoharie, N. Y., assignor to Beech-Nut Packing Company, Canajoharie, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application December 24, 1937, Serial No. 181,624

2 Claims. (Cl. 248196) The present invention relates to display stands, is bent into U-form and has the ends of its legs and has special reference to display stands for bent inwardly and pivotally mounted in apersupporting open top boxes 01 cartons containing tures in the lugs Hi. The forward end portion of packages of candies, chewing gum, or other small the platform 6 has a downwardly bent portion 5 packages on the counter for the purpose of dis- 26.

playing the contents thereof. When the display stand is not in use, and for One of the objects of the present invention is shipping purposes, the platform 6 may be swung to provide a display stand of the character indiupwardly against the vertical wall 8 as indicated cated which is simple in construction, attractive by broken lines in Fig. 2.

10 in appearance and convenient in use, and which When in use, the platform 6 is swung down 10 displays the carton and its contents to the best into the position shown in full lines in Figs, 1 advantage. and 2,'the forward downwardly turned end 20 Another of the objects of the invention is to of the platform resting on the counter and the provide a display stand of this character having upper edge of the channel wall l4 serving as a a coin receptacle of novel and improved constop or rest for the platform when the display 15 struction. stand is lifted from the counter.

In the accompanying drawing, The carton 2 containing packages (not shown) Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a display may be placed on the platform with its rear edge stand embodying the features of my invention portion Testing 011 the p of e s l8 d the in their preferred form, an open top box or carpp r dge of the fly-leaf 3 inserted into the 20 ton adapted to contain small packages being tightly fitting groove I6. The edge of t 1 3'- shown by dot and dash lines in position on the leaf is firmly held in the groove It by the enstand; gagement of the bottom of the carton with the Fig, 2 is a longitudinal sectional view taken lu T llS the carton may be easily removed substantially on the line 22 of Fig. 1, the carton d replaced on the platform 6. 25 being shown in section; and Viewing the stand from the front, when the Fig. 3 is a sectional plan View taken substancarton is n position 011 the d, y the Portiall on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2, but with the cartion of the stand support ab v the pp edge ton removed. of the fly-leaf of the carton is visible, and the The display stand .as illustrated in the draw packages in the inclined carton are displayed to 30 ing, is particularly adapted for displaying an the best advantage and may be conveniently open top box or carton 2 which may contain removed by the customer. small penny packages of candies, chewing gum, As shown, the stand is provided with a. coin reor other small packages, on the counter of a ceptacle at the rear thereof into which the cusstore, The carton may be made of pasteboard tomer may deposit a penny or other coin upon 35 of the usual form having a fly-leaf 3. removing a package from the carton.

As shown the stand comprises a support 4 This coin receptacle has a rear wall 20 and side and a platform 6. The support 4 may be attracwalls 22 formed from a single piece of sheet tively made of sheet metal and comprises a metal. The inner edges of the side walls are member having avertical wall 8, rearwardly bent turned outwardly to form flanges that are se- 40 side wings or walls Ill and a channel shaped forcured by rivets 24 to the vertical wall 8. The. ward portion at the lower end of the Vertical wall upper edges of the side walls 22 are inclined uphaving a, forwardly extending bottom wall l2 wardly from the upper edge of the wall 8, and and an upwardly turned wall M at the forward t rear W is extended upw y ab v the ed e of the bottom wall l2, the walls 8, l0, I2 Wall 8 and may have printed matter thereon. 45 and I4 being preferably formed of a single piece A coin release member 25 of sheet metal is of sheet metal. The bottom channel wall l2 and pivotaily mounted in the coin receptacle. This the lower end edges of the side walls l0 are submember has a vertical portion 26, the lower porstantially in the same plane so as to provide a tion of w h is Curved downwardly and rearstable supporting surface for the stand. wardly to form a rearwardly extending portion 50 The upper edge of the vertical wall 8 is turned 28. The outer end of the portion 28 projects beover to form a downwardly opening channel or yond the rear wall 20 of the receptacle. The vergroove l6. The vertical wall 8 also has two fortical edges of the portion 26 has outward prowardly struck earS or lugs l8. jections 30 which are pivoted in apertures in the The platform 6 may be made of a wire which side walls 22 of the receptacle. 55

Normally the coin release member 25 is held in the full line position shown in Fig. 2. In this position the portion 28 thereof closes the opening at the lower end of .the rear wall 20, the portion 28 engaging the lower dge of the rear wall 20. The coin release member 25 is held in this position by the engagement of the longitudinal edges of the portion 28 thereof with inwardly pressed protuberances 32 in the side walls 22 of the receptacle.

When the coin release member is in the described position, upon a coin being deposited in the coin receptacle it drops down upon the portion 28 and rests thereupon. When the store-.

keeper desires to examine the coins deposited, or to empty the coin receptacle, he presses downwardly on the rear end of th horizontal portion 28 so as to force that portion doumwardly over the protuberances 32 and into the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2, the upper end of the coin release member engaging the forward side of the rear wall of the receptacle. When the coin release member is thus operated, the co'ms' my invention permits various modifications without departing from the spirit thereof or the scope of the appended claims.

store-counter with said bottom wall and the lower ends of said side walls resting on the counter so as to provide stable supporting means for the stand, and a platform hingedly connected to the front wall of said support and its forward end resting on the counter when the stand is in use, said platform adapted toen age the upper edge of said flange when the stand is lifted so as: to limit the downward swinging movement of the platform.

2. In a display stand of the class described, a support formed of sheet metal having a front wall, side-walls extending rearwardly from the front wall, and a bottom wall extending forwardly from the front wall, said stand adapted to be positioned on a store-counter with said bottom wall and the lower ends of said side walls resting on the counter so as to provide stable supporting means for the stand, and a platform hingedly connected to the front wall of said support and its forward end resting on the counter when the stand is in use, said support having means for limiting the downward swinging movement of the platform when the stand is lifted from the counter. I

L'ANDON C. GALTON. 

